2024
- Presented at Factset’s Data Solutions Town Hall on Generative AI
2023
- Moderated panel at Factset Developer Days on GenAI System Design
- Presented at Factset GenAI Friday’s on LLM-based solutions
- Featured in Youtube video on Revolutions
2022
- Interview with Swiss Media RTS on Military Coups
- Presented at Warner Robins Air Force Base on Advanced NLP IR for Technical Documents
- Presented at Boeing Intelligence and Analytics to DOD partners on AI and NLP solutions
2021
American Political Science Association (Seattle, OR)
- Religious Pluralism and Mass Violence: A Global Analysis, with Gunes Tezcur
International Studies Association Annual Meeting (Virtual)
- Militarized Fisheries Conflicts Associated with Global Climate, with Cullen Hendrix, Sarah M. Glaser, and Paige Roberts
Centre College Guest Lecture (IST 210 - Research Design)
- Overview of GIS in Empirical Social Science
UCF School of Politics, Security and International Affairs Colloquium
- The Commons Synthesis Project: Applying machine learning to synthesize knowledge on community-based natural resource management, with Graham Epstein, Jacopo Baggio, and Jennifer Joel
2020
International Studies Association Annual Meeting (Honolulu, HA) - Cancelled due to Covid
Climate Past, Climate Present, and the Future of Fisheries Conflict, with Cullen Hendrix, Sarah M. Glaser, and Paige Roberts
Presidential Personalities and Operational Codes: Learning Effects and Midterm Congressional Election Results, with Mark Schafer and Gary Smith
2019
International Studies Association Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
- Drivers of Fisheries Conflict in East Africa, with Sarah M. Glaser and Coleen Devlin
2018
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA)
Reconsidering What We Know About Private Military Companies and Their Effect on Conflict, with Christopher M. Faulkner
Stray Bullets - Civilian Victimization and Contested Space, with Roland Sanchez
2017
International Studies Association-South Annual Conference (Orlando, FL)
The Effect of Mutinies on Coup Attempts in West and Central Africa
Evaluating Out-Of-Sample Accuracy for Models of Interstate Conflict Using Machine Learning, with Clayton Besaw and Gary Smith
International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- The Psychological Characteristics of Presidents and Society, and Their Effects on Protest Levels, with Mark Schafer and Gary Smith
Southwester Political Science Association Annual Conference (Austin, TX)
- The Determinants of Contracting Private Military and Security Companies, with Christopher Faulkner
Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Orlando, FL)
- Sign on the Dotted Line - Contracting Private Military and Security Companies in African Civil Wars, with Christopher Faulkner
UCF Political Science Department Colloquium
- Food Insecurity and Coup Forecasting with Ensemble Methods
2014
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA)
- Race and Media Perceptions of Marion Barry, with Mitchell Brown and Ben Cole